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Hunting Rangefinder For Golf

Accuracy
Laser rangefinders are extremely accurate. Most will guarantee accuracy of plus or minus 1 meter. That is more than close enough for the average person and their needs, but this may not be good enough for commercial engineering or military use. For this, it is better to use GPS range finding techniques and triangulation equations.

Choosing the correct rangefinder for your needs can be a daunting task. What type do I need, do I need a GPS Rangefinder or a Laser Rangefinder, and maybe it should be an Optical Rangefinder. After you figure out the type you want, now you have to figure out what brand. Should I get Bushnell or Nikon, should it be Leupold or one of the many other brands? Oh yeah I need to know what features they have and do I need them and in some cases are they even legal to use on the golf course. Or maybe this rangefinder is for hunting or hiking and needs to be more accurate.
Let’s first take a quick look at the type of rangefinder you may need. For golf and hunting you can use either a GPS Rangefinder or Laser Rangefinder. Both will help your game. GPS Rangefinder have mapping abilities that give you distances to various places on a golf course while the Laser Rangefinders tend to be more accurate. For hunting that increased accuracy may mean the difference between success and failure.

History
Rangefinders have actually been around for quite a while; clear back into the 19th century. Laser rangefinders in particular, being not nearly as old, have only become popular to the average person in the last 20 years or so. They have been used by commercial and military operations for some time now, but these models were typically too big and heavy, and way too much for the average person to use on a day to day basis, not to mention they are much too expensive for the average person to afford.